In November 1942, a scenario played out in Wakefield that resembled the script of a Hollywood movie. The main characters were Phyllis Priest, a beautiful hometown girl, and Cooper, a dashing Navy ...

Japan, Australia’s second largest trading partner in the first half of the 1930s, therefore assumed growing importance – ...

The loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse paved the way for Japanese forces to make a successful run on Malaya and ...

But the main thrust of Beijing's attack is likely to come far above the Earth, in outer space—where America's satellites are ...

We know what happened on November 22, 1963, at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, but there is a lot about that terrible day we don‘t ...

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It's a huge contrast from 65 years ago, when he saw Japanese airplanes bomb and strafe U.S. airfields and ships at Pearl Harbor, drawing America into World War II. "They'd come in right over ...

During that first national commemoration, former Union Gen. and sitting Ohio Congressman James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, after which 5,000 participants helped to ...

Overton was the son and grandson of jurists and his great-grandfather had been a justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court ...